In the past, a “header” in web design typically referred to the ever-present strip at the top of websites that contained the logo, navigation bar, and maybe some contact details and search bar. Nowadays, a “header” refers more often to the entire space above the fold on the home page. Unless someone’s found your site […] View original post at …
Playing the Role of Online Reputation Manager
Over the years, I’ve received requests from people wanting their comments removed from the site. I recently received a request from a reader that I remove a comment they made three years ago because it was showing up in Google search results for their name. Normally, I ignore these requests as it makes me feel like I’m their online reputation …
Adding a Custom Widget to Any Page, Post or Template in WordPress
Widgets make WordPress really flexible. By adding widget areas to your themes, you let users insert their own custom content without having to write a line of code. They’re most common in sidebars and footers, where they’re often used to hold widgets such as the search widget, latest posts widget, or maybe a custom menu. […] View original post at …
Ultimate Branding Just Made Customizing Login Screens Super Easy
Ultimate Branding just turned 5 and we’re celebrating with some epic new white label features! Our WordPress re-branding plugin is the all-in-one, everything you need toolkit for giving WordPress a completely new look WordPress. Personalize the dashboard, reconfigure the toolbar, add your very own hot links and tooltips, replace the WordPress logo absolutely everywhere including the […] View original post at …
Morten Rand-Hendriksen on What Gutenberg Means For the Future of WordPress
As work continues on Gutenberg, members of the community are discussing its impacts on WordPress’ future. Morten Rand-Hendriksen considers Gutenberg to be a watershed moment, “This is a revolution,” he said. “This is a watershed moment for WordPress. This is entirely new and fundamentally different from how WordPress works and how we work with it today. I cannot overstate it …
How to Code an Automatic Section Menus Widget in WordPress
If you’re a regular user of large e-commerce or news sites, you’ll have noticed that they have section menus, with links to all of the pages in the section that you’re currently in. Adding one of these to your site helps users find related content and will reduce your bounce rate. But setting up a […] View original post at …
7 Best Newsletter Plugins to Create and Send Emails in WordPress
One of the keys to success in digital marketing is to ensure that the right hand is always talking to the left. This means that if you’ve spent time building a beautiful WordPress site and regularly write high-quality content for it, you’ll want those efforts shared across other marketing platforms. Social media is one of […] View original post at …
4 Plugins for Streamlining Your Workflow with a Minimal WordPress Dashboard
WordPress developers and implementers are a pretty lucky bunch when you think about it. You get to work on a platform that’s inherently intuitive, secure, and chock-full of features. How many people get to say that about their digital platforms? Sometimes, though, all that “stuff” clogging up the WordPress admin can get in the way of […] View original post at …
Facebook Isn’t Budging on React’s BSD + Patents License
Last month React users petitioned Facebook to relicense the project (and its other open source projects) after the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) added Facebook’s BSD+Patents license to its Category X list of disallowed licenses for Apache PMC members. Participants and subscribers to the GitHub thread waited weeks for a decision on re-licensing while Facebook’s engineering directors discussed the matter internally. …
Why It’s Important to Get WordPress Featured Images Right (Plus Tools & Tips)
“Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.” is the first reported instance of the English language idiom that most of us know as “A picture is worth a thousand words”. In other words, why waste your breath (or fingers) when you could use a single picture to tell your story? A beautiful example of […] View original post at …


